-ESSAY: A letter to America: You're the 21st-century Romans. Your admiring friends used to know you well: land of the brave, home of the free. Now, as you obsess over the omens of war, we wonder if you know yourself. (MARGARET ATWOOD, March 28, 2003, Globe & Mail)
-ESSAY: Napoleon's Blunders: A tale of preemptive strikes gone wrong (Margaret Atwood, March 16, 2003, LA Times)
-INTERVIEW: Hand-Wringer's Tale of Tomorrow: Margaret Atwood explains why her new novel, in which mankind faces extinction through its own devices, should be called speculative fiction. (MEL GUSSOW, 6/24/03, NY Times)